Patent GB-190010310-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Registering Monetary Transactions.
Inventor: FRYDMANE JULES
Filed: 1900-06-05
Granted: 1901-06-01
Abstract: 10,310. Frydmane, J. June 5. Type-writers and like machines.-In a registering and integrating apparatus for registering monetary transactions, two automatic sectors e, five operating sectors f, two operating sectors g, and a distributing sector h are mounted on a fixed spindle a supported in side frames b, c, d. The sectors are notched, one wall of each notch being shaped like a finger nail. The notches on each of the sectors e, f, except the last two, have, at the bottom, engraved &c. numerals. The notches on each of the sectors g are, with the exception of the last three, provided with abbreviations indicating, for example, the kind of goods to be debited, the notches of the second sector being provided with the number or initials of the salesman. The notches of the sectors h bear abbreviations of the transactions, such as " delivered," " credit sale," " purchase of merchandise," &c. The sectors e, f carry toothed sectors to engage with toothed wheels forming part of the adding device. Each sector carries another sector carrying a curved plate l having a flange, on the edge of which corresponding signs are engraved. The sectors are connected by tubes to sectors m, n, o, p, having similar signs on their peripheries and adapted to print double tickets. A transverse plate r serves as an abutment for the operator's finger when manipulating the sectors f, g, h. A bar s, below this plate, is carried by levers t oscillating on a shaft u and having a roller v engaging a cam w on a shaft x. This bar ensures alignment of the sectors during printing. The levers t are connected by a crosspiece y carrying spring pushers z holding pawls 1 against the sectors. Each double ticket printed has a main part and a counterfoil separated by a line of perforations, and is drawn from a cardboard strip 5 unwound from a bobbin, loosely mounted on a shaft, and passing through a passage and between two pairs of feed rollers, two of the rollers being covered with india-rubber and acting as pressure rollers. The other rollers are inflexible and have projecting parts at their ends to cause the feed ; one projecting part for feeding the main part of the strip is longer than the other for feeding the counterfoil. A perforator and a numbering and dating device are arranged between the two pairs of rollers. The perforator consists of a cross-piece, against which the cardboard is pressed by a plate with perforating points and provided with a pin engaging a rotating grooved cam geared to one of the rollers. The numbering and dating device is operated by a cam geared to one of the feed rollers and engaging a pin attached to the frame of the printing discs, the final upward movement causing the alteration of the number and the inking of the discs. The printed strip passes through a funnel-shaped piece, attached to a fixed cross piece, over a cutting-blade operated by a lever 27 oscillated on a fixed shaft and connected by a pin 29 to a cam 30 on the shaft x, to a guide in which is mounted a slide-block engaged by a lever 34 oscillating on a fixed shaft and connected by a pin 35 to a cam on the shaft x. A horizontal table 37 is fixed at the upper part of the slide-block, and has an elastic pad, on which the end of the printed strip rests and by which the strip is moved to the printing-sectors m, n, o, p, the impression being made twice. The edges of the table have slides 38 enclosing the sides of the ticket, which is ejected by rotating collars 40 operated by collars 41 pressed by springs against the cams 30, 36 having projecting parts 42. The printing-surfaces l print on a registering-strip divided into two columns, one for debits, entries, or receipts and the other for credits, issues, deliveries, &c. The strip is mounted on a carriage and is unwound from a bobbin, passes over bars and a compressible pad, and is wound on to a receiving bobbin. The bobbins are mounted on pins carried by a bracket on a base plate having tongues sliding in a carriage, to which it is connected by a spring bolt. One end of the receiving bobbin carries a ratchet-wheel operated by a spring-controlled pawl on a shaft carrying an arm operated by the cam w. The pawl may also be operated through the adding-device by a handle 77 on a shaft 78 carrying a cam acting on a lever connected by a link to an arm on the pawl shaft. A pin 53, engaged by an automatic pivoted spring locking-catch 57, on the carriage, prevents it from being removed until the impression has been made of the total arrived at by the adding device. The carriage support consists of two parallel bars 54, 55, pivoted on a fixed shaft at the back and having extensions, between which is situated a sleeve engaged by a screw 63 passing through segmental slots in the extensions and operated by a pinion 67 engaging a toothed sector in one piece with another sector, which engages with a sector connected to the sector h so as to move the guides laterally. A cam 65 on the shaft x engages the bars 54, 55 and a roller 66 mounted on balls. The inking is effected by pads 84 detachably mounted on lever arms, that for the sectors m, n, o, p being fixed to a spindle 86 mounted on one end of a lever 87, while that of the sectors e, f, g, h is attached to a shaft 88 mounted between the levers 87, 89, which oscillate on the shaft a and are operated by a spring and a cam 91. Each pad has at the bottom two small blades, between which the ink can ooze and which are adapted to print a line directly on the registering strip or double ticket, when required. The shafts 86, 88 carry arms 94 having rollers 95 kept by springs in contact with fixed circular paths 96. Above each arm 94 is a spring-controlled jointed arm 98 having an arm 99 connected by a rod 100 to the cam 79 or a disc 101 fixed to the pawl-shaft 78. The two parts of each arm 98 are jointed by a spring so as to be rigid during their downward movement but to move out of the way on their return. The adding-device has toothed wheels mounted on shafts 102, 103, 104, 105 carried by side plates 106 having extensions 107, traversed by the shaft 78, and pins bearing on cams on a shaft 110. The cams are secured to a tube 111, having at one end a claw coupling which is put into action, so as to lock the tube to the shaft 110, by a spring and out of action by a forked lever pivoted to a fixed support and movably connected to another lever operated by a cam carried by the sector h. The shaft 102 carries seven gear wheels spaced the same distance apart as the sectors i carried by the sectors e, f, and each wheel consists of a drum 122, one half being toothed to engage a sector i when the adding-device has been raised and the other plain and having numerals corresponding to those on the segments e, f. These wheels are kept in engagement with the sectors i by spring-controlled pawls 123, and each has in its interior a pin which engages a corresponding pin on the shaft 102 when this shaft has been moved longitudinally by rotating it, by a key fitted on its square end, so that a pin on the other end moves over an inclined face. By this means the wheels are set to zero. Those wheels which correspond to the sectors e have pins on one face equal in number to the numerals on their plain parts. The shaft 103 carries seven wheels, each formed of a toothed wheel between a ratchet-wheel and a cam-disc, the wheel to the right having no ratchet and that to the left no cam. The toothed wheels gear with the corresponding ones on the shaft 102, the four to the right being connected with levers 136 pivoted on a shaft 137 and carrying spring pawls 138, hooks 139, and projections 140 adapted to engage the cams. Each pawl engages the ratchet-wheel of a next higher order. A catch 141 maintains each lever in position and has a projection 142 engaged by an arm 143 so as to release the lever. The shaft 144, carrying the arm 143, carries a toothed wheel 145 engaging a toothed wheel 146, on a shaft 147 carrying a crank 148. The shaft 104 carries five toothed wheels which constantly engage those on the shafts 103, 105. Those on the shaft 105, when raised, engage with wheels 151 carrying pinions 153 and engaging wheels 154 engaging pinions on a shaft 157 and controlled by a spring- pressed catch 158. Each pinion is secured by tubes to two of the discs 159, 160, on the peripheries of which numerals are marked. The numerals on the discs 159 are arranged so as to be read by the operator, while those on the discs 160 are arranged so as to be read by the public. The pinions 153 have a missing tooth and are adapted to be engaged by sectors 162 to bring the discs to zero. The adding is effected by causing all the sectors which have been operated to return by means of a transverse bar 163 passing through slots 164 and carried by levers 165 oscillating on the shaft a and having collars in which are rollers carried by circular discs keyed to the shaft 110. The rollers operate rods attached to the bar 163. The shaft 147 carries a toothed wheel 170, which, through a wheel 171, operates a wheel 172 keyed to the inking-cam shaft. A wheel 175 gearing with a wheel 176, keyed to the cam shaft x, is operated by the wheel 173. Motion is transmitted by gearing from the shaft 110 to the feed rollers. The rock-shaft 78 of the adding-device carries two small hooked pieces, which, when rotated, engage pins on the frame so as to raise it. The crank handle 77 has a spring pin 180 to engage a lug 181, on one of the toothed wheels 175, while the adding-device remains raised. The shaft 102 carries a notched disc, the notch being normally engaged by an arm on the lever 184. When the arm is disengaged from the notch, the lever presses upon a spring-supported slide-rod, which frees the catch locking the carriage, bearing the registering strip, in position. The return of the catch is effected by a cam 204 on the shaft x. The slide-rod is locked in its lower position by a small spring catch mounted on the extension 107 and aut